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Local Area Agreements

Local Area Agreements (LAAs) are agreements made between central and local government. They seek to address local needs through local partnerships, while keeping to national priorities.

For help with including culture in Local Area Agreements, visit our LAA Toolkit on the menu above.

You also may also find IDEA's Cultural Connections pages helpful.

Other resources: 

General guidance	Guidance with cultural angle	Links
Learning from LAAs: a regional perspective: Presentation by GOSE July 2005	LAAs and the Historic Environment English Heritage	Improvement and Development Agency LAA pages IDEAs culture and LAA pages
LAA FAQs Compiled by Volunteering England	MLA South East's museums, libraries and archives role in contributing to LAAs	Sport Playing Its Part in LAAs Published by Sport England
Indicators of Strong Communities Published by www.neighbourhood.gov.uk	Big Lottery Fund's contribution to LAAs	MLA South Easts LAA pages
An overview of LAAs Presentation by GOSE July 2006	Sport England's view of the contribution sport can make to LAAs	Arts Council South Easts pages on LAAs
Guidance for Round 3 and Rounds 1 and 2 Refresh Published by the (then) ODPM	Arts Council South East's view of the contribution of the Arts to LAAs	Department for Communities and Local Governments LAA pages
IDEA's LAA Toolkit	Tourism South East and LAAs
Culture South East's examples of cultural indicators for each LAA block	More on museums' contribution to LAAs from IDEA website
Portsmouth City Councils LAA resource pack for voluntary organisations	DCMS " Working Together": a guide for councillors on the delivery of public services around culture and sport
	Overview of culture in London LAAs
	Culture and LAAs in the South West (seminar notes)

 

 

Here are some lessons we learned for culture in Round 2;

Learning points for the future:

• Can culture challenge other/bigger services about whether or not what is being included in the LAA is over and above what they should be doing anyway?
• Two tier authorities with fewer Districts, where the Districts have been invited to be at the table, have tended to be more successful at getting culture on the agenda.
• Culture needs to use different language and encourage others to do so references to soft and hard outcomes and targets not helpful.
• Explicit links between culture and non cultural objectives and outcomes strengthens the case for culture and makes it more difficult to be removed in subsequent drafts.
• GOSE block leads and locality leads, and the leads within the local authorities, have different levels of understanding about the contribution of culture. Some may need persuasion on the contribution of culture to wider issues.
  

 

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